Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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James P. McGoodwin (Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1830? d. 1861?

About

Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney. Caldwell County, Kentucky, native. Son of David W. McGoodwin and Susan C. B. D. Wigginton McGoodwin. Graduate of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1849. Student in Caldwell County in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with David W. McGoodwin in Princeton in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Died in 1861.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 280B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 816.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 116.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000851644, p. 20.

The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, 1860 (Danville: Cincinnati Gazette Steam Print, 1860), 21.

Find A Grave, "James P. McGoodwin (1830-1861)," Memorial #191446918, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191446918 (accessed March 24, 2021).

Citation

McGoodwin, James P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210016 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (4)

Correspondence
D. W. McGoodwin to J. P. McGoodwin and W. H. Miller
1861-02-12
Correspondence
George W. Noel and Joseph Fuquay to Hiram H. Smith
1861-02-01
Correspondence
James P. McGoodwin and Will H. Miller to Beriah Magoffin
1861-02-21
Petition
William H. Baley et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-01-22

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